How to Pronounce Knife

These poignant and deceptively quiet stories are powerhouses of feeling and depth; How to Pronounce Knife is an artful blend of simplicity and sophistication -- Mary Gaitskill I love these stories. There's some fierce and steady activity in all of the sentences - something that makes them live, and makes them shift a little in meaning when you look at them again and they look back at you (or look beyond you) -- Helen Oyeyemi Souvankham Thammavongsa writes with deep precision, wide-open spaces, and quiet, cool, emotionally devastating poise. There is not a moment off in these affecting stories -- Sheila Heti A masterful collection, written with so much veracity, you'll swear every word is true ... Here is life, rendered with precision and insight. Instantly recognizable. She offers sharp sensory details, piercing imagery, endings that will punch you in the gut and leave you yearning for more -- Sharon Bala, author The Boat People This is a book full of powerful resilience, great journeys, and above all else: fierce, heart-wrenching love -- Paul Yoon, author of Snow Hunters How to Pronounce Knife is a book of unusual ferocity and grace. Souvankham Thammavongsa carefully unpacks the aches and aspirations of immigrant and refugee life in tight, commanding prose; and these subtle yet shattering stories glow with empathy, humor, and wisdom -- Mia Alvar, author of <i>In the Country</i>